1. Building Connected Android Apps with Azure Chris Risner Technical Evangelist Microsoft chrisner@microsoft.com @chrisrisner

2. Introduction Just a little bit about me

3. Agenda

4. What is Mobile Services?

6. Structured Storage Powered by SQL Database Same DB – Multiple Mobile Services Data management in Windows Azure Portal SQL Portal SQL Management Studio REST API CLI Tools

7. The REST API ActionHTTP VerbURL Suffix CreatePOST/TodoItem ReadGET/TodoItem?$filter=id%3D42 UpdatePATCH/TodoItem/id DeleteDELETE/TodoItem/id https://Mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/tables/*

8. JSON to SQL Type Mappings JSON ValueT-SQL Type Numeric values (integer, decimal, floating point) Float(53) BooleanBit DateTimeDateTimeOffset(3) StringNvarchar(max)

9. Server Side Scripts Customizing logic on the server

10. Node Modules Extensibility through numerous included modules

12. Push Notifications Client (1) (2) (3) (4)

14. Notification Hubs (enhanced push) Highly scalable push notifications!

15. Data Authorization

16. User Auth Flow (server) GOOGLE FACEBOOK TWITTER MOBILE SERVICE DEVICE MICROSOFT

17. User Auth Flow (client) GOOGLE FACEBOOK TWITTER MOBILE SERVICE DEVICE MICROSOFT

18. The User object

20. Command Line Tools Scriptable control from PowerShell / Bash

22. Using the Scheduler Execute scripts on a schedule Execute scripts on demand Frequency and length of execution based off of service level Ideal for backend data processing

23. Custom API Non-table based scripts Accessible from Get Post Put Patch Delete Same permissions as tables

24. Script Source Control Handled through GIT repo Access to table, scheduler, custom API, shared scripts, and permissions Shared Scripts Make scripts accessible from other scripts Just like creating Node.js modules NPM Ability to use ‘npm install module’ to download NPM modules

26. Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

27. Service Scale Free 500K API calls per subscription per month Basic 1.5M API calls per unit per month Standard 15M API calls per unit per month

29. Mobile Services Tiers $ General Availability 99.9% FreeBasicStandard Usage Restrictions Up to 10 services, Up to 500 Active Devices* N/A API Calls500K (per subscription) 1.5M (per unit) 15M (per unit) ScaleN/AUp to 6 Standard units Up to 10 Enterprise units Scheduled Jobs LimitedIncluded SQL Database (required) 20MB Included, Standard rates apply for more capacity 20MB Included, Standard rates apply for more capacity 20MB Included, Standard rates apply for more capacity

30. Windows Azure Mobile Services

31. Resources Get a Windows Azure Free Trial Account http://www.windowsazure.com Videos, Tutorials, and More http://www.windowsazure.com/Android Source code on GitHub https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services Contact Details chrisner@microsoft.com @chrisrisner

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33. OAuth Authentication Flow